„If you arrive late, you won’t know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won’t care. p. 277“

— Dorothy Parker

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„Hamilton took a deep breath, let it out, then said, “Listen to me. I don’t know much about women, and sometimes it seems like I didn’t know anything about them. But I’m sure of this—she won’t let a little thing like you taking a pot shot at her stand in the way if you ever had any chance with her at all. She’ll forgive you.”“You don’t really mean that, do you?” Monroe-Alpha’s face was still tragic, but he clutched at the hope.“Certainly I do. Women will forgive anything.” With a flash of insight he added, “Otherwise the race would have died out long ago.”“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect. p. 324“
— Dorothy Parker
„In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.But my innocence is gone forever.“
— Paullina Simons